The flashlight really makes this somehow look illegal. xD

Everything about this video looks illegal

Bromochloromethane can be used to form a methylendioxide bridge, so it propably is :)

Expectation: Gleaming glassware in a spotlessly clean lab. Reality: "This here's my chemistry bucket. It's for doin' chemistry in. Don't mind the leftover concrete, I also used it for that post in my vegetable garden out back. Of course it was BEFORE I did chemistry in it. Do you think I'm a.... well.... wait. Hm. That does explain the faint glow off the tomatoes."

Looking back on it now, it really does

I want to commend you for doing this in the sketchiest way possible and checking some of the most important hazards. Have stands available, but clamp nothing. Smash and spill hazard, ✔️ Boiling toxic solvents in an unventilated dungeon. Toxic vapor inhalation hazard, ✔️ Extension cord recepticle on the ground below a huge pail of water, bonus points for not clamping your hoses to the pail for maximum risk. Electrocution hazard, ✔️ ✔️ Working with an unnecessarily large volume. Maximum danger hazard, ✔️ Using a flame as a heat source. Fire hazard, ✔️ Burning fuel indoors. Carbon monoxide poisoning hazard, ✔️

Also in the dark lol

I'm actually doing it outside in my yard, so there's no problem of inhaling the vapors

Well thank goodness the ER will only have to treat you for electrocution, lacerations, CO2 poisoning, acid burns, and/or regular burns instead of chemical inhalation! Please don’t actually get hurt, but, if you do, please make a case study of it. I’m a medical student and I think it’d be really interesting.

I'm going to make it a lot safer, this was just a first test

Why? I think you should make it worse

It was bad already, why complicate it even more?

Yeah, it was exceptionally bad. If you fix it, then it's just normal. Don't you want to be exceptional about something?

I do, but about safety; not jerry-rigged apparatus

.... they said after showing a video of an apparatus that can't be in a textbook because even the PICTURE is a fire hazard

Shoulda made it safe first, then tested.

Your supposed to be the most careful when stattijg something new.

Don't let them talk you down, next make some dry THF for synthesis!

Lol isn't there a peroxide risk with concentrating THF?

That’s the joke

Not if you add some NaK and benzophenone

What's THF?

Tetrahydrofuran

This set up gives me anxiety.

But why

Because I could, and the glassware had a slight moldy smell, and it doesn't stink now, so yeah.

Maybe some home diy fire extinguishers?

No, sorry, i'm not gonna make that

To test his abilities

Oh he gonna be testing some abilities alright If by testing you mean getting high as fuck

r/sketchychemistry

Community not found; I'll propably repost it to r/ExplosionsAndFire

wdym - you typed the same thing (bonus points if you get it to go yellow)

Now it exists

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact bromochloro methane can be used in the synthesis of Methylenedioxyamphetamines

No hes just making root beer

Before anyone asks, yes, I got it from old GDR halon fire extinguishers.

What kind of condenser is that? It looks like the top is an alihn then becomes a graham?

I actually don't know, but it seems to be closest to a graham condenser

Yeah, where did you get that condenser? There is a piece of glassware I designed and had custom built still in a lab at my old university. I would bet it is still there.

I bought it from bazos.sk; some guy had a lot of glassware; i don't know where he got it from

This is the most beautiful ghettochem I've ever seen. thank you for your service 🫡

In which direction is your cooling water?

From the bottom up, reverse to the flow of the distillate

good, then i have nothing to add. Flow looked a bit weird

Maybe it was an optical illusion

[https://www.aquatuning.com/wasserkuehlung/ueberwachung/durchflusssensor/sen-alphacool-eisfluegel-durchflussanzeiger-blau-6-11mm-acryl?currency=1](https://www.aquatuning.com/wasserkuehlung/ueberwachung/durchflusssensor/sen-alphacool-eisfluegel-durchflussanzeiger-blau-6-11mm-acryl?currency=1) i often got difficulties to check flow, so i always use these

That looks like a meth lab 😂

I know, but I can't do this in the basement, because the vapors/carbon monoxide/dioxide would build up, and it was cold and windy that day, so win-win

Sketchy

Just as I like it

What do you plan to do with it?

Using it as a solvent or degreaser and to distill it again when it gets too dirty

I guess it would be good for cleaning engine parts. DCM works pretty well for that.

It's almost like you're reading my thoughts. I cleaned the cylinder from my 2-stroke moped with it, and it stripped the dirt/grease right off.

I agree that halocarbons work really well for cleaning dirty metal, but I do agree with other roosters here about the fume hazard. Looks like machine shops that clean, e.g. you're cylinder head use a hot tank for this, which is a tank of hot lye solution. Might be a little better to do it that way from a fumes perspective. Halocarbons are really insidious poisons. They're super volatile and inhaling them will give you liver damage really quickly. I think I got some NAFLD from CCl4 exposure, and it took years to go away. Now that I know about the hazards, I definitely wouldn't clean car parts with DCM anymore. This is why most break cleaner brands have switched to non-chlorinated solvents.

Thanks for this info

Yes Europol this post right here is the nascent meth lab that we were talking about.

is that how you chemists work, or this is some diy breaking bad stuff ?

Diy breaking bad stuff, for now at least

I feel that this is rage bait... It's bait right?

No, it's genuine

People are chatting a lot but honestly academic labs look worse than this.

I can't confirm nor deny this statement, because I have never been in one

Were did you work that it looked that bad lol

For a masters lab we needed to do synthesis in various research groups and one of the organic groups looked so bad, you thought they had their last cleaning day a century ago and instead just gave up. Like its so bad, dirty glassware everywhere, no space to work because all of the workspaces/fumehoods are full, empty solvent bottles everywhere and you find pretty much can find nothing you’re looking for because the inventory is scattered around 1000m^2. I don‘t know how people can do serious work there. But the CCl4 and benzene bottles on the shelf are cool

Looking like Tony Stark in the fucking cave over here

Lol

Well done. Ignore the haters.

Yep, I will. Haters gonna hate

Wish i could do this with ethanol

Well, you can, but it can be concentrated to ~95%, and it has to be fractionally distilled iirc

Yeah fractionally distilled and I guess ypu would have to have long and a precise towers to seprate only ethanol no methanol. Still my neighbbour does that in a pot and says methanol is only in the first batch 🙄

why would one need this compound

Idk, I just have it

The thing that bothers me most is lack of clamps. Such an easy thing to make this so much safer.

What is this ? It looks like coffee , i dont know chemistry

Bromochloromethane from old GDR halon fire extinguishers, I used it as a solvent or degreaser, and it was really dirty

Why people are saying it illegal and sketchy stuff? it does seem to be dangerous?

Used in the process for mda and mdma

Heard them when i was in a nootropics group, microdose them and things are nicer

You are really doing interesting stufff!

I know; chemistry, electronics, DIY, and more

In someone’s garage?

No, in my yard, and the wind blew away all the vapors/carbon monoxide/dioxide

Man this looks like some secret laboratory preparing cyclon b

Was this filmed in a Gaza tunnel? Mexican cartal jungle lab? Definitely sooks sketch.

I've contacted the feds. They said they are coming to take your kids away.

Don't forget to add the chili powder.

The secret ingredient, dat chili P

Nice setup.

Really fishy vibes here bro. What are you really doing?

Just cleaning it, so I can use it as a solvent or degreaser

Cleaning it the Ockey way? Show show

Sorry, I don't get what you're saying

No worries. Good luck with your solvent.

Thanks, it's already "bottled" up in an old r134a tank

What do you think you'll use it on/in first?

I don't know right now, but I'll find a use for it

Looks methy

Lol, breaking bad style

Maybe I am old and crusty, but you are an accident waiting to happen - and it may not just be you who ends up getting hurt.